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Title Mathematics from the visual world / the Teaching Company.

Publication Info. Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2009]
©2009

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LECTURE SERIES 516 STA PT 1 2 DVDS    Check Shelf
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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LECTURE SERIES 516 STA  BOOK    DUE 11-28-23 Billed
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Description 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 108 pages ; 19 cm.)
Series The great courses, Science & mathematics
Great courses (DVD)
System Details DVD.
Performer Lectures by Michael Starbird.
Bibliography Bibliographical references included in course guidebook.
Summary Presents lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. Presents a collection of topics that reveal the rich, wondrous structure of what we see around us. Patterns in nature are the source of our geometrical understanding of the world. Abstracting those patterns leads to concepts from classical geometry. Extensions of those and other ideas of form have created a landscape of mathematical ideas, including Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometries, symmetry groups, and graph theory.
Contents Part 1: Disc 1. Lecture 1 Seeing with our eyes, seeing with our minds ; Lecture 2. Congruence, similarity, and Pythagoras ; Lecture 3. Circle ; Lecture 4. Centers of triangles ; Lecture 5. Surprising complexity of simple triangles ; Lecture 6. Clever constructions -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Impossible geometry, squaring the circle ; Lecture 8. Classic conics ; Lecture 9. Amazing areas ; Lecture 10. Guarding art galleries ; Lecture 11. Illusive perspective ; Lesson 12. Planes in space.
Part 2: Disc 3. Lecture 13. Cooling towers and hyperboloids ; Lecture 14. Non-Euclidean spherical world ; Lecture 15. Hyperbolic geometry ; Lecture 16. Dark night sky paradox ; Lecture 17. Shape of the universe ; Lecture 18. Fourth dimension -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Patterns of patterns ; Lecture 20. Aperiodic tilings and chaotic order ; Lecture 21. Mandlebrot and Julia sets ; Lecture 22. Pathways to graphs ; Lecture 23. Rubber-sheet world ; Lecture 24. Shape of geometry.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Mathematics.
Geometry.
Symmetry.
Graph theory.
Mathematics in art.
Mathematics in art. (OCoLC)fst01012330
Geometry. (OCoLC)fst00940864
Graph theory. (OCoLC)fst00946584
Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
Symmetry. (OCoLC)fst01140811
Genre/Form Educational films.
Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
Added Author Starbird, Michael
Teaching Company.
ISBN 1598035134
9781598035131
Standard No. 9781598035131
Music No. 1447 Teaching Company
PD1447-01 Teaching Company
PD1447-02 Teaching Company
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